A Wise Friend Said...

Happy Easter to all before I start.

A wise friend told me today that this world is so sad and full of so many negative things but that God knows how the human heart has need of hope in order to survive here. So He has not only given us the promise of Heaven through His resurrection but He also gives us little glimpses, little reflections of what awaits us in the eternal land of light and joy...Everytime you see a small beauty of nature, a blooming flower in an unexpected place, a stunning sunset or sunrise, a secret brook bubbling away deep in a wood...All these are little promises of what will come...They are HOPE for our weary world...Hang on Heaven's Coming!

GG

Refocusing

Sometimes as hard as you try life makes you forget things you may not want to. Or maybe it just distracts you from those things...Lately I have lost some of the intense focus on heaven that I usually have. Its called life here on earth. Thats the problem. Sometimes life HERE gets so involved, so intense that you lose sight of most everything else...That is what has been happening to me. Thanks to my lovely daughter who reminded me by her innocent little questions and comments, the fruits of so many conversations on heaven that the focus was brought back... We must not ever totally lose sight of heaven. As St Paul says keep your eye on the goal, run the race! We must not lose sight of the finish line! Those that do will be lost! I know so many family members well these are inlaws actually that have forgotten. It deeply pains me to see them living by the worlds standards and losing sight of the future! The thought of what their future might be pains me greatly since these people are so well known to me. I see what could be and then have to compare it to what very well will be for them...Its tragic. And yet all you can do is share what you know, its up to them to decide what to do with their time here. Thanks to my daughter for redirecting me of late. Life has thrown me some interesting curves and its especially important to not get distracted and hence caught up in worldly ways of dealing with things and possibly losing the race because of it! No like I keep telling my daughter from before and now again, YES! I'm going to heaven because I am going to make the right choices to get me there! And so are you (when she asks if she will also get there) Its up to us isn't it? Its not like buying a lottery ticket- you hope you picked the winning number! No Christ died for us, opened the doors to heaven for us, now we only need to accept those graces He offers to us, make the right godly choices and we're in, we will have won! Its not a "oh I hope I get there" thing. Of course we can say that in the sense of "oh I hope I DO make all the right choices" but we DO have free will remember? We can make the right choices that put us in God's camp under His standard! Heaven IS within our reach, everyone of us! We must simply choose to run the race with the goal in mind. We must not often get distracted lest we fall and not get back up. Its not an easy race by any stretch of the imagination... Think of tri-athletes is it? Running over all kinds of terrain and elevations, doing all kinds of physical exertion. Its tough and you have to be tough to do it. But the help is there if we but ask, then with our God given free will we must CHOOSE to get there no matter what we encounter along the way. It CAN be done, we must never believe otherwise. If it were unattainable God wouldn't have offered it to a weak human race now would He? And we do know that other have made it so we can too...

Peace,
GG